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Latest episodes

  • Mathematics Just Changed Forever — Kevin Hartnett

    October 26, 2026 · 1 hr 34 min

    Kevin Hartnett is the author of *The Proof in the Code*.SPONSOR:---Cyber Fund built the Monastery to help founders ship products that were impossible a year ago. Applications for Batch 1 are now open.Apply now: https://cyber.fund---In 1998…

  • What Most People Get Wrong About Evolution | Akarsh Kumar

    October 10, 2026 · 48 min

    A lot of people in AI treat evolution as a dumb fallback, basically random search for when you can't take a gradient. Akarsh Kumar thinks that is wrong. Selection hangs on to partial solutions, so mutations only need to be useful about 1%…

  • How a Voice Agent Learns the Rhythm of Conversation — Shawn Wen

    October 1, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

    Tsung-Hsien (Shawn) Wen, CTO of PolyAI, tells Tim Scarfe why voice agents are harder than text agents. Voice adds time, and a good conversation depends on adapting to the person on the line, not just on reasoning to the best answer. Shawn…

  • Who Checks a Proof No Human Can Read? — Leo de Moura

    September 30, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min

    Leonardo de Moura created Lean and co-created Z3. ---This episode is sponsored by Parallel.Parallel, where agents find answers: web search, extraction and deep research APIs built for AI agents.Start free with the Parallel MCP server and…

  • When AI Research Starts Moving Faster Than Human Research - Zhengyao Jiang

    September 26, 2026 · 44 min

    Weco let an AI coding agent rewrite the harness around another agent for eight days: its code, prompts and tools, while the underlying language model stayed fixed. Tim Scarfe asks Weco co-founder Zhengyao Jiang what the reported gains over…

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  • How Deep Learning Finally Cracked Messy Tables - Frank Hutter

    September 23, 2026 · 1 hr 53 min

    Frank Hutter, co-founder of Prior Labs, talks about TabPFN, a tabular foundation model that makes predictions in a single forward pass, and the research behind it. TabPFN is pre-trained on synthetic datasets drawn from a prior over…

  • Why Scaling Prediction Cannot Create Intelligence - Alexander Mattick

    September 21, 2026 · 2 hr 14 min

    Alexander Mattick is a researcher at Fraunhofer IIS and a PhD researcher at the University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN), and a regular on Yannic Kilcher's Discord. He first came on MLST in 2022, after helping research the Yann LeCun and…

  • How Physical AI Learns Across Language, Video and Action — Ming-Yu Liu

    September 15, 2026 · 26 min

    The car making a left turn at the start of this episode was never filmed. Cosmos 3 generated it. Ming-Yu Liu, who leads the Cosmos research at NVIDIA, explains how one model can describe a video, generate one, and produce robot…

  • Speech Recognition Is Not a Solved Problem — Pavan Kumar Reddy

    September 14, 2026 · 1 hr 42 min

    Pavan Kumar Reddy leads audio research at Mistral AI. He joins Tim Scarfe for a deep technical tour of Voxtral — and explains why the frontier of deployed voice is still a cascade of specialised models rather than one end-to-end…

  • How Replication Could Teach Machines What Good Science Looks Like — Edward Hughes

    September 11, 2026 · 2 hr 2 min

    Can a machine learn the judgement that separates a plausible-looking result from a faithful experiment? Edward Hughes, Chief Scientist and co-founder of Inherent, joins Tim Scarfe to argue that creativity is not optimisation, and that the…

  • AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen

    September 8, 2026 · 1 hr 30 min

    Could slowing AI development make superintelligence safer? Daniel Kokotajlo and Thomas Larsen of the AI Futures Project join Tim Scarfe to examine AI 2040: Plan A, a proposal to buy time before AI exceeds human control. SPONSOR: --- Cyber…

  • Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath

    September 2, 2026 · 1 hr 40 min

    Tom McGrath is co-founder and Chief Scientist at Goodfire, and a former Google DeepMind researcher. He joins Tim Scarfe to ask what neural networks actually learn, whether their internal representations converge on structures in the world…

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About the show

Welcome! We engage in fascinating discussions with pre-eminent figures in the AI field. Our flagship show covers current affairs in AI, cognitive science, neuroscience and philosophy of mind with in-depth analysis. Our approach is unrivalled in terms of scope and rigour – we believe in intellectual diversity in AI, and we touch on all of the main ideas in the field with the hype surgically removed. MLST is run by Tim Scarfe, Ph.D (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ecsquizor/) and features regular appearances from MIT Doctor of Philosophy Keith Duggar (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-keith-duggar/).